The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-11
THOSE STOLEN NOTES.
The Celebrated Case in the First
District Court.


The case of the People VS.. Maurice
McGr8th was continued at Provo on
Monday.
All witnesses, save the one testifying
were excluded from the. room, and the
attorneys asked that the evidence be
not published in the press-that the re-
porters be excluded also. The
Court thought the matter one of
public interest, however, and refused to
fire the reporters.
ALMA H. VIM, recalled-The case
lasted thirteen weeks; Mr.. Patterson
reported after October 9th, excepting
few days while he was indisposed, when
reported; first heard of the finding of
the satchel just before the grand jury
met in, November. 1t was about a
month after this before l received de6n.
tie Information about it; did not think
it worth while to follow the IN
formation up from Mr.. Peters;
remember having conversation with
Arthur Brown just after the satchel
came into the hands Of, Sheriff Turner.
about the lost notes; he did not men
ton the satchel being found; | did not
say that was the first information | had
received oft; we had no conversation
then about the satchel; after [ had been
subpenaed, there was conversation;
did not tell him that when the satchsl
came into the hands of Turner l first
heard of it; never made any such con-
versation at all. Mr.. Brown and |
were one day in his back office, he said,
Il suppose you have heard nothing
aboutthe notes" and said the satchel
had'been found L made no acknowledge
ment of the matter, knowing the proper
place for me to make any declaration
was before the grand jury. All the wit
neeses were examined in the case and
took down the testimony. Miss
Lee was reporting for the
not connected with the court.
Orlando w. Powers was the next wit
ness. He testified that he was Judge of
this district in 1885; sat in the mining
case of the Bullion-Beck and Cham
piOn, which began on the ed of Septem-
Der, and occupied thirteen weeks. Ad-
journed Saturday afternoon, and went
10 Salt Lake that evening; there were
Arthur Brown, J. G. Sutherland, Judge
Emerson, Myers, Litchfeld, Hardness,
Bennett, a"d others. Nearly ali
were engaged in the case, except the
local attorneys; saw VIM at the depot;
did not see his luggage; had seen his
satcnel 8 number of times; 1.-THE satchel
was brought in and identifed). 1 rode
in the sleeper, Major Lite fiaII, EmeI-
son, probably Sutherland H ,rkness
and l think Alma VIM ToQe in the
same car; rode in the same car all the
way; Vim came in after we had got
on our way and | noticed him having
conversation with Judge Emerson; [
called him to me; saw him come in so
soon after we started that | thought we
had hardly got out of town ; he rode with
me all the way to Salt Lake; the first [
heard of the loss was when l had got to
my room. when he came to me excit-
edly and told me of the loss; | told HIM
to go to the hotels and look at the bag
gage that came in; told him then to put
notice in the paper and drafted the no.
tlce; found he had searched the train;
told him we had both better come to
Provo next day, which we did, but
found no trace of the satcheI;
offered hf y dollars reward; di-
rected police officers to offer
reward; know Oh no nOLlcS having
been sent to Provo Saturday evening;
first learned OF the satchel being found |
in November; it was in the hands of
Sheriff Turner; identified it at the
time as Mr.. WINS satchel. Mr.. VIM
about two weeks after that;
my recollection is that Mr.. VIM left
of his own accord.
CrOss-examined-Wa very DESTROYS
TO find the notes. Mr.. VIM was very
pale and excited when he came to me
about the matter; knew the notes were
the case was tried at great
to both sides, and his zeal was
enormous
Q-You took more zeal in the case
than the parties in either side did, did
you not?
A.-Oh, no; guess not.
Odd you know of any of the !
wiring a notice of rewardP
A.-No; they took considerable in
terest in the matter, and said reward |
should be offered. Did not tell Sheriff !
Turner about the matter at the time;
no recollection of it; 1 told The Grand |
Jury wanted an unsparing Inyestiga- |
ton of the matter, and consulted the |
The value of those notes up to the
10th day of October, was several thous-
and dollars, not less than 5000.
J, g. Sutherland was also called and |
at the conclusion of his testimony |
court adjourned till 2 p. m.
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